[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

-— “Traffic tickets in Campo comprised 93 percent of the town’s budget in 2013. That was more than $300,000 for the town of 107 people. -—

That’s old school. Do they throw you in the pokey if you don’t pay up?

[old gringo]

all these little towns in the west are like this,30 yrs. of driving a 18 wheeler i could wallpaper the white house with tickets.

[riverdawg]

“That’s old school. Do they throw you in the pokey if you don’t pay up?”

That was true in South Carolina 25 years ago if you were pulled over by the local police/sheriff's department. Pay your fine in cash on the spot or you were driven to the local magistrate, who might let a bondsman post bail for you.